A travel-sized large-format 4x5 camera?

Ever wanted to shoot with the incredible image quality of large-format 4"x5" film? Well now you can without lugging around a massive view camera. Wanderlust’s Travelwide 4x5 camera is small enough to go wherever you go. At 6.3 x 3.9 x 5 inches and 9.7 ounces it’s relatively compact and definitely lightweight. Constructed of glass-filled ABS plastic, the point-and-shoot camera features a focusing screen, focusing marks on the barrel, and a trio of cold shoe accessory mounts.

The Travelwide comes with a metal sport finder, pinhole lens, and lens attachment tool. You’ll have to supply a standard 4x5 film holder and, if you want to shoot instant film, a 545i Polaroid holder (the 545 should work with a little hacking).

Available now for preorder, it will ship this summer for $149. It’s no surprise that at this price, the camera comes only with the pinhole lens. Wanderlust recommends a Schneider Angulon 90mm F6.8 lens but says it can accommodate other 90mm lenses as well, so unless you have one tucked away somewhere, check KEH, eBay and other sources for a used lens.

No new idea. some guys of http://www.paparazzis.ch/do this every year at basel fasnacht-canrival of basle. Maybe if you surf the site you will see the cam. Looks like a view/polaroid with digitalcompact inside.For the same eople of tageswoche.ch even installed a camera in a window for selfportraits. timelapse of the shootings can be downloaded online.sorry for duplicate message-belongs here

Tempting. A camera with no auto focus, no built in meter, but at the same time capable of large format film IQ (if you get it right, behind the camera). At the price, it's worth a punt, but I'd expect a lot do seriously dud photos (from me, at least).

Edit: Oh, and I'm loving some of the comments here, Seriously though, this could be special. If I'm understanding the numbers, only Medium Format digital will beat this (when you plus this get it right, that is).

What's the point of a 4x5 if you're getting blurry pinhole snaps. Although it might work for soft focus portraits when you want a lot of depth of field so your ugly subject can merge into the background.

How do you comfrim your focus? Just guess. Is that why they want you to use wide angle lens. Looks kinda cheap. PS for all the Fuji haters out there, The wide angle Fujion lens for 4x5 were some of the best made. I personally would but a used flat bed 4x5 over this thing.

Funny you say that. In the late 1980's my father (a professional photographer / film maker) urged me to "go digital". Back then, it meant some sort of rather unobtainable scanning system, and grotesquely expensive software! I've scanned all of my 4x5's ... much more convenient for printing, and no "spotting" of prints needed.A scanning back on that little plastic camera would be much more fun.

Yup we did that in 1989: A Rollei 6x6cm camera with the Rollei Scanback. Very expensive and slow but it was more than paid for by jobs we were able do turnaround in hours! David Myers www.digitalmasters.com.au

Since when is the name of a website a complete description of all content that may be found therein? Even though the focus is on digital photography, they also sometimes write about other things that might be of interest to a photographer, like film photography or videography.

Possibly because they like taking photos and appreciate the beauty in such a photo, rather than pixel peeping and arguing about the tech specs of digital cameras. A lot of digital photography has become, is looking for differences to nit pick on, when 99% of the dSLRs and ILCs produced will do the job they are purchased for.

It's not that hard to believe considering that large format still offers the best resolution for a single shot, assuming you have a good lens and good technique. Fine grain 35mm film is only now being matched by digital (the D800 was the first camera to reach the equivalent of a 5000 dpi drum scan of Ektar 35mm). Medium format film at its best (again, meaning fine grain, low-sensitivity, high quality lens and good technique) still isn't matched by 35mm-format digital, let alone large format.

Yeah, it is crazy that everyone hasn't agreed to work exactly like everyone else. How dare those silly people use film. Maybe they understand that digital is still not quite good enough for some purposes.

The 90/6.8 Angulon is a dog, with very dark corners and (usually) a sticky shutter (if you get a "good" one and stop all the way down, it's passable). A 90/8 Super-Angulon or similar would work but be front-heavy. Something like a 135 Symmar would be small and sharp, if you could get it to focus.

The 90 6.8 Angulon is quite nice on 6x9 film and kind of marginal (to me) on 4x5. I used one for years on 6x9 despite also owning a much larger and heavier 90 4.5 Grandagon. But if you are not using a good lens, why bother shooting 4x5?

Once you go to a better lens you won't have such a compact camera. And of course you still need film holders, meter and other stuff that adds weight.

Looks nice. Small, cheap, very light compared to other similar ones I've seen before. Would have been nicer if it was used for something better than just bland snapshots in the video, of course.

What the specs of the camera doesn't tell you is that if you want to bring along more than just a handful of film, it's going to get rather heavy with all your film sheets and film holders. The back and lens will add a bit of weight too. But, of course, compared to even light field cameras, it's practically a featherweight.

First impression is : hey everybody, look at me, I'm a "serious" photographer. Have to wait and see if anyone actually uses this as more than a trendy hipster gadget and turns out anything of visual interest that can't be done with apps or suites. I don't want to turn my back on film, but if you are looking for image quality as well, and not just an artsy effect/ feeling, it appears this is not where it is found. Kinda bulky for a gimmick.

I used a camera like that 20 years ago. It was called "Cambo Wide" or something. I used a 60mm Super Angulon on it. It came with adapter for 90mm and helical focusing. I must have done over a thousand negs with it. Nothing's new.

Attractive idea, but (and that's what keeping me from buying/using a filmcamera); very impractical. With larger sensor compact camera's around (and a few nifty post-processing filters) you can get roughly the same effects. Not the same quality perhaps...there are some nice snaps on that flickr-page! :)

Kind of a cool idea, but to me it occupies a not really all that useful niche. I'd much rather have some sort of 6 x 9 medium format camera if I wanted to shoot bigger negs and have portability... or if I wanted to go with really big negs, I'd want the sort of large format rig that has a bellows so that I can get all of those movements... To me, that's what it's all about!

This is so awesome. Here in the United Snakes 25 sheets of 4x5 film is $30 or $40 plus $3 or $4 per sheet to process. If you have the time to shoot it beats the cost of buying a Hasselblad or a Phase digital. And the people here obsessed with shallow depth of field will love it because at normal apertures like f/5.6 your DOF is measured in fractions of an inch.

BTW, the 90 F5.6 and similar view camera lenses are not meant to be shot at 5.6. That is for focusing only. Wide angle lenses like this are designed for a large circle of coverage to accommodate camera movements. The maximum circle is achieved at f22. I rarely shot wider than f16 with any view camera lens unless I was after very shallow dof for a particular effect.

Yes the price per image drives you to think first carefully and then push the button. It's basically a move from snap-shooting to real photography - but only if you have the right tool. Therefore I'd rather prefer a used 4x5 film Fuji Rangefinder or Hassi, Mamyia, Pentax, Yashica SLRs... with a good lens. On ebay e.g. are plenty offered for quite decent prices. This Wanderlust thing looks more like a 3D printer's joke.

The aperture isn't different, it's the distance between the aperture and the film/sensor. On most cameras, the size of the sensor and the distance to the aperture mean there isn't a lot of difference between the center and corners, but in a medium/large format, wide-angle camera, the distance between the aperture and corners is noticeably longer than to the center (like 50% longer). Also, you start to view a very small aperture at an angle, causing it to be a smaller, oval cross-section.

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